I absolutely enjoyed growing up at a time when video games made the jump from 2D to 3D, with colorful low-poly graphics and all, but I'm starting to feel a bit nostalgic for the Game Boy Advance era of portable handheld gaming. After all, there was a Kirby game I used to like playing on my silver Game Boy Advance SP back in 2006. Originally, I had a translucent purple Game Boy Advance, which my family bought when it arrived in stores in the middle of 2001. I liked playing Namco Museum and a few other games on that thing, but I was a little disappointed that it didn't come with some sort of light so I could play my GBA games in the dark. I spent hours trying to beat Rayman. It was a very difficult game. I couldn't get past Picture City. But I liked its art style, since it reminded me of one of those Don Bluth movies that I watched on a VHS tape when I was a kid in the 90s.

For the longest time, I thought of the Game Boy Advance as like a portable Super Nintendo, but just recently, I started to think it was more capable than that. After all, I think it could do 3D and low-poly graphics, but I guess that was a rarity for the system.